Kenneth F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Kenneth F., who was born in Richtenberg, Germany in 1921. He recounts attending the local public school and religious school in Stralsund; non-Jewish friends not longer associating with him after they joined the Hitler Youth; the impact of the Nuremberg laws, including not being allowed to employ non-Jews; living with his aunt in Berlin in fall 1935 to attend a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; matriculation in 1938; masonry training in preparation for emigration; receiving permission to emigrate to Manchester, England as a trainee in 1939; working as a brick-layer trainee from March to September; internment as an enemy alien in 1940; corresponding with his family through relatives in neutral countries; enlisting in the British military in November; postings in Tunisia, Italy, France, and Germany; encountering a railroad car stacked with corpses; returning to Berlin with the British occupation; military discharge in 1946; returning to Manchester; joining his future wife, originally from Berlin, in the United States in 1947; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. F. discusses the deportations and murders of his parents and many other relatives.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Kenneth, -- 1921-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, British.
- Child survivors.
- Jewish refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Noncitizens -- Evacuation and relocation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Nuremberg laws.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Germany.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Bar mitzvah.
Places
- Berlin (Germany)
- Manchester (England)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Germany.
- Richtenberg (Germany)
- Stralsund (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat